Phased In Project

Support Foster Youth Who Are Aging Out

Every year in the state of Texas 1,500 or more youth age-out of the Texas foster care system, many without families or any semblance of a support system to help adequately transition them into adulthood. Consequently, 50% of these youth will be homeless and will enter into drug, alcohol, and/or sex addictions before their eighteenth birthday. This issue is a growing problem and is seen most evidently in the simple fact that the state prison systems of America base their future inmate population from the number of youth that age out of the foster care system.


Family First is committed to helping these young people so they can successfully transition into adulthood with bright futures full of opportunities. Visit Phased In for more information and resources to support Foster youth.*

*Phased in is an approved Missions Project for the North Texas District.

Child Protective Services

Data & Statistics 

Child Protective Services (CPS) investigates reports of child abuse and neglect to protect children from harm. CPS works to strengthen and stabilize families so that they can safely care for their children at home. When that is not possible, CPS works with the courts and communities to find permanent homes or other places for children to live. Click below to lean more.

Child Protective Services

Support Adopted, Foster, and Homeless Families



SWAGG is a family-focused ministry that shares the love of God and serves our community by helping to establish normalcy in children’s lives. SWAGG has successfully served over 9,000 foster and homeless children since 2015.

Buckner

Ministry for Families

Buckner International is a ministry dedicated to the transformation and restoration of the lives we serve. We are a Christ-centered organization that delivers redemptive ministry to the most vulnerable from the beginning to the ending of life. We are moved to minister in ways that provide positive, lasting outcomes – not just for a moment, but for a lifetime. 

2ingage

Support for Families

2INgage partners with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to offer case management, foster care placement, and support services to children and youth in Region 2, a 30-county area that includes Abilene and Wichita Falls. 2INgage serves as the Single Source Continuum Contractor for foster care and support services, while also providing case management services through Stage II of Community-Based Care.

A World For Children

Fostering Homes for Children

The children enter the doors of A World For Children foster homes with terror, uncertainty, physical scars, and emotional trauma. A World For Children’s foster parents, along with the 24-hour support of A World For Children’s staff, spend every day changing uncertainty into undying stability, mending physical injuries, and providing in-depth treatment for emotional trauma.